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ORIGINAL! GRAF ZEPPELIN CAPTAIN HANS von SCHILLER PHOTO - INSCRIBED AUTOGRAPH BY WIFE 1978
VERY RARE! PERSONAL FAMILY PHOTO OF GRAF ZEPPELIN\'S CAPTAIN HANS von SCHILLER IN HIS STUDY DURING HIS LATER YEARS WITH MEMENTOSOF HIS HISTORIC CAREER IN ZEPPELIN FLIGHT IN THE BACKGROUND. THE CAPTAIN POSES WEARING WHAT I BELIEVE IS A MEDAL FROM HIS EPIC \" ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT \" WHILE HOLDING HIS 1966 BOOK \"ZEPPELIN , Wegbereiter des Weltluftverkehrs \". ON HIS WALL IS A PICTURE OF HUGO ECKENER, COUNT FERDINAND VON ZEPPELIN AND THELZ127 GRAF ZEPPELINWITH A SCALE MODEL HANGING OF THE LZ127 GRAF ZEPPELIN TO WHICH HE IS MOST REMEMBERED.
INSCRIBED AUTOGRAPH SIGNED BY HIS WIFE ELLEN CHRISTMAS1978 TO AN AMERICAN ADMIRER / RESEARCHER ON THE REVERSE:
In Memory of my Husband
to Bud Miller
from his widow
Ellen v. Schiller
Christmas 1978
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE.
VERY SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST.
DIMENSIONS: 5\" x 6 3/4\"
MEDIUM WEIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.
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THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION.
* Hans von Schiller (b.1891-d.1976) served in the 1st World War as a security officer and later commander of Zeppelin airships. After the war he made a career to become a world pioneer in international air travel. Captain Schiller was the longest acting Zeppelin crew member, serving in various Zeppelins for over 20 years from 1917 to 1939. He was on board ** LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin for flights to the Arctic and around the world. He captained in USA and South America. He was on the 3 test flights of the *** LZ-129 Hindenburg and was on board on the first trip for the year 1937 to Rio Frankfurt (16.-20.-3-37) and back to Frankfurt (23.-27.-3-37). Then he was given the command of the LZ-130 (Graf Zeppelin II) in the fall of 1938.
** LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated from 1928 to the most successful airship ever built.
*** LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest by envelope volume. The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt at its mooring mast atLakehurstNaval Air Station, on board were 97 people; there were 36 fatalities.
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